Gloom Persists in Europe Despite German Growth

The euro-zone’s two largest economies avoided shrinking between April and June, but the resilience of Germany and France wasn’t enough to prevent the currency bloc’s economy as a whole from falling back into contraction. Dow Jones’s Jenny Paris discusses.

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